Shoulder at the capital tomorrow morning. As the capitol tomorrow morning. You mentioned the road closures. Suzanne kennedy, what is it looking like where you are this morning . At 23rd andare constitution. We want to show you what it is looking like here. You can see authorities are bringing road closures into place in this area. They have brought in jersey walls and some buses. They are prepared to close this area down as they get ready for the concert scheduled for this afternoon. There are a lot of these closures happening around town. Within the last hour or so, Memorial Bridge closed at 4 00 this morning. The roosevelt bridge is closing at 10 00. We have areas of downtown you will want to avoid. They are working to close down the roads around the lincoln thisial in preparation for afternoon pass concert. Jamie we have one big issue right now that i want to focus in on. We have skytrak 7 overhead, flower avenue near piney branch road. There is fire activity with a working restaura
Tere in the security perime where the gates have just opened. Sam good morning. They are pushing on the gates to get them open. We are waiting. We believe they should be opening in the next few seconds but in the meantime, take a look at the crowd. Some of these people have been here since 2 00 in the morning. People over there are headed to the National Mall. The people in this line dressed up heading to the Prayer Breakfast. They traveled from all over the country. It is very early in the morning but a lot of smiles on peoples faces. Just caught up with this couple. You came from dallas. What brought you here . Smiles on your faces. We are so glad to be here. Sam; what brought you up from dallas . We came to pray. When we made the reservations, everything started opening for us. We got tickets to the inauguration. We are glad to support the nation. Sam what he will to hear from the president elect . About a shift in the nation. And the economic things that are going to be happening.
Jamie toss to johnny were following breaking news in fall church. A manhunt happening breaking news in fall church. A manhunt happening right now, after a driver shoots at a police cruiser, then takes off. This all happened on georgetown pike near Rossmore Court thats where our ryan hughes is live this morning. Ryan . President trump begins his first full week on the job new round of executive orders. Expected first on the agenda orders to reverse restrictons on carbon emmissions. Changes in immigration policy. And taking action on nafta the north American Free trade agreement. A ceremonial signing is set for this morning. And also on trumps public schedule for today. Separate meetings with corporate and union leaders. An intelligence briefing. Lunch with Vice President mike pence. And tonight, a meeting with bipartisan congressional leaders at the white house. On the hill today the senate is set to vote on two of the president s cabinet picks, including secretary of state nominee rex
Been falling in the afternoon. We have had a number of reports, even gaithersburg, manassas sleet mixing in with the rain. North and west the snow here. Everybody is picking up on the gusty winds. The National Weather service cut back a wind advisory dropping montgomery, fairfax, arlington, the district out but northeast of town until 7 00 some of these may peel off as well. But the winds, the strongest winds so far is probably it. It wont get windier. It should ease up a little bit. The doppler, we have bands of rain but they are lighter. Everything is rotating north. We have a mixed area north and west. Then we have snow. It will snow for a couple of days in the mountains. The Higher Elevation you are, the more snow you are likely to see. Its coming down. Great for the ski operators. Even though the overall trend for warmer temperatures returning. But for now its good news. The big picture, the storms complex is here. Virginia, north carolina, slinging in the moisture and pushing nor
Assistance in hardest hit areas. The weather team can warn about the Severe Weather headed our way. Go to wjla. Com text. To sign up for alerts to be sent to your phone. Now no the white house where President Trump is making wavers on the First Business day of the waves on the fist business day of the presidency. He issued three executive orders and multiple high level meetings he has had. Q trump kicked off the first full week at the white house with ambitious agenda. President donald trump began with the Business Leaders promising to cut business taxes and the we can cut regulations by 57 . Q he withdrew with the t. P. P. Keeping the campaign partner. Great thing for the worker what we did. The staff is doing challenge control. After the press secretary spicer said that fridays inauguration was the most watched in history. Stated falsehood about the d. C. Metro ridership that day. Today, spicer defended himself. We have to be honest. There are things we may not understand. But the in